March 2018
Intermediate to advanced
192 pages
4h 4m
English
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Preface
Xamarin released the Xamarin.Forms toolkit in the summer of 2014, and it has since become a very popular framework for .NET mobile app developers. On the surface, Xamarin.Forms is a user interface toolkit focused on abstracting the platform-specific UI APIs of iOS, Android, and Windows into a single easy-to-use set of APIs. In addition, Xamarin.Forms also provides the common components of a Model-View-ViewModel (MVVM) framework, making it extremely easy and intuitive to bind data to a user interface.
Xamarin.Forms comes with several building blocks that are paramount to a solid mobile app architecture, such as dependency injection, data binding, messaging, and navigation. However, many apps will quickly outgrow these in the box capabilities ...